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100 Words and a Picture


There are many untold stories behind the art that hangs in our gallery.

I would say, equally as interesting as the art itself.


How about telling your story, its easy and people want to hear it.

100 WORDS AND A PICTURE – share something about yourself on LAA’s Blog
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  • Member Statement/Profile: A little something about yourself and what inspires you to do art
  • ArtWork Story: Your process, the experience, or the deeper meaning behind a select piece of your art
  • Literary Art: Write prose or poetry that interprets or reflects a piece of your artwork

Don't wait to be asked: Send your submission by email to: info@lafayetteart.org

That stare from a blank canvas

3/31/2022

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“I tell you, if one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity…

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter, “You can’t do anything.” The canvas has an idiotic stare, and mesmerizes some painters so that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares — and who has once broken the spell of “You can’t.”

Life itself likewise always turns towards one an infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side on which there is nothing, any more than on a blank canvas. But however meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, and who knows something, doesn’t let himself be fobbed off like that. He steps in and does something…”
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Vincent van Gogh

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" La Peche" by Edouard Manet

11/27/2021

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"If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I am really lucky I leave too."
Edouard Manet
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ArtWork Story: Susan Chiquelin

8/13/2021

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​How “Water” Came to Be
"A wonderful thing about art is that its expression is as limitless as the medium available to produce it."
Art requires a willingness to learn and to experiment. I started out exploring art through ceramics. Then came basketry followed by experimentation in 2D art through encaustic mono-print making.  As each medium was explored, varied and creative work was produced.  

The production of artistic work for me involves research and workshop attendance where learning and experimentation is encouraged. A recent workshop I attended exposed me to printmaking with acrylic paint on a Gelli plate. 

Happily, “Water” was a product of that workshop.  
Susan Chiquelin
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ArtWork Story: Louise Guidry

7/29/2021

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The inspiration for my Painting, "Roadside Wild Bunch" is truly just exactly that!
​While driving along a country road I stopped and had to admire what I was seeing. Truly a field of yellow flowers, with a few blue flowers in the foreground. I've already articulated the beauty of our wild flowers in our gorgeous state of Louisiana. This was a painting in the making, this painting was different due to how prolific the flowers were with a background of inspiring trees.

​When I returned to my studio I was overly eager to begin this painting with the source of inspiration that I acquired. It proved to be a striking series that I forged, and one that has proved to be accepted in the art scene to a great extent much to my pleasure.

Louise Guidry
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ArtWork Story: Danny Izzo

5/16/2021

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Danny Izzo. Snake on a Rock
I am NO fan of snakes, but over the years I have realized that human nature often attracts us to that by which we are “repelled”.

The grooves in the rock against the curves of the snake make a visual that, to me, makes something a but extra-ordinary out of something “ordinary”.

I also love black and white. This seemed perfect for this subject matter. So we have “Snake on a Rock” in B&W.

​I hope you enjoy.

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ArtWork Story: Guy Kilchrist

5/5/2021

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Assignment, Exploration, Modelling, Study, and then some years later - Reinterpretation
The 9" x 12" encaustic piece (at right) was created at a recent LAA workshop led by Bonnie Camos. Although it is a recent work, its origin of inspiration began three years earlier while taking a Drawing class at UL.

In our class assignment, we were given a list of famous artist of the “Suprematism” movement which is focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects. 
 
I chose a simple piece by Ivan Kliun (1873-1943): a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist because of its intrigue and simplicity. ​We were to model the design with household items and then do a “still life” charcoal rendering. 
​The encaustic interpretation was painted directly on a hot plate without considering the mono print would be a reverse image representation. The three dots and thin lines were applied afterwards with India ink. 

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Another derivative of the original Kliun piece.
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1019 Auburn Avenue (behind Abacus)
Lafayette, LA  70503
337-269-0363
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  • Home
  • About LAA
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  • Explorations
    • Member Websites
    • Gallery Exhibits >
      • Spring 2020 Exhibit
      • Eye of the Beholder 2020
      • 2020 Member Show
    • Member Art >
      • Theme "Red"
      • Theme "Circle"
      • Theme "Reflection"
      • Theme "Three"
      • Theme "Pattern"
      • Theme "Bugs"
      • Theme "Time"
      • Theme "SPACE"
      • Theme "PATRIOTIC"
      • Theme "PALS"
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